At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And — I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.